COVID-19 Special Collection: Documenting the MSU Experience
The COVID-19 pandemic universally upended daily life beginning in March 2020 in both expected and unexpected ways. Members of the Montana State University (MSU) community reacted and adapted as needed in our personal, professional, and scholastic lives. MSU Library’s Archives and Special Collections documented this new reality by soliciting written reflections and other records of life during the 2020 pandemic from MSU students, staff, and faculty. The materials in this collection represent the range of the MSU community’s response to the pandemic, from the very personal to the administrative. The bulk of the collection consists of student responses to COVID-19 related assignments in courses across disciplines beginning in Spring 2020. Together these records constitute an archive of lived experiences during this time.
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CLS 101 COVID-19 Assignment
(Montana State University, 2020-05)Using the Kolbert book (Sixth Extinction), find THREE specific points of data (quotes) from throughout the book (any chapter/include pg#) that you think could somehow be applied to our current situation. For each, please ... -
ANTY 242 Contemporary Japan COVID-19 Assignment
(Montana State University, 2020-05)Contemporary Japan General Discussion Areas -EXTRA CREDIT -COVID-19, your thoughts and experiences This is an extra credit post and you can get up to 10 points. Please share your thoughts, daily experiences, struggles ... -
ANTY 428 COVID-19 Assignment
(Montana State University, 2020-05)This is a discussion topic for your extra credits for the course (10 points) and a place for you to share your own experiences, observation and thoughts on COVID-19 and various situations, esp. socio-cultural ones - caused ... -
(no) NCUR Reflection EDSP 307
(Montana State University, 2020-05)We are most certainly in an unprecedented space and time. COVID-19 has upended all that we knew as “normal” and has forced us into ‘distancing’ ourselves—which, if I may be honest, is so challenging for many, including ... -
(no) NCUR Reflection EDSP 306
(Montana State University, 2020-05)We are most certainly in an unprecedented space and time. COVID-19 has upended all that we knew as “normal” and has forced us into ‘distancing’ ourselves—which, if I may be honest, is so challenging for many, including ... -
RLST203D Spring 2020 COVID Responses
(Montana State University, 2020-05)Final discussion prompt: Please take a few minutes to reflect on the course. Write a post that discusses what you learned this session. If a friend were to ask what *they* should know about Buddhism, how would your respond? ... -
RLST321 Spring 2020 Final Discussion
(Montana State University, 2020-05)Write a final discussion post that addresses our current global pandemic and the experience of social distancing. Specifically, how do you think some of the women or concepts in Christianity/Buddhism could help us approach ... -
EDEC 385 COVID-19 Time Capsule
(Montana State University, 2020-05)When MSU moved to remote learning after spring break, I asked students in my EDEC385 Early Childhood Curriculum course to create a time capsule by choosing one word to describe how they were feeling. Students responded ... -
ARTZ 217 COVID-19 Assignment
(Montana State University, 2020-05)This is a course assignment collected from ARTZ 217 as part of the MSU COVID-19 Special Collection in response to the pandemic of 2020. -
Geographical Planning COVID-19 GPHY 365
(Montana State University, 2020-05)Write a response to two topics (sign up in class). Reflect on a particular aspect of a reading of your choice that assigned for that day. Write a response reflection about the reading. Your fictional audience is the general ... -
(no) NCUR Reflection EDSP 458
(Montana State University, 2020-05)We are most certainly in an unprecedented space and time. COVID-19 has upended all that we knew as “normal” and has forced us into ‘distancing’ ourselves—which, if I may be honest, is so challenging for many, including ... -
Western Equitation EQUH 110 COVID-19 Response
(Montana State University, 2020-05)EQUH 110I would like you to tell me how COVID -19 has impacted you. You can take any number of perspectives such as, relating to this class, your family, school in general, your job, your life, etc. You can do this in ... -
Intermediate English Equitation EQUH 207 COVID-19 Assignment
(Montana State University, 2020-05)I would like you to tell me how COVID -19 has impacted you. You can take any number of perspectives such as, relating to this class, your family, school in general, your job, your life, etc. You can do this in written form ... -
Myth and Belief COVID-19 Responses
(Montana State University, 2020-05)Final Discussion prompt: Please take a few minutes to update us about your thoughts about, or your individual experience with, the current global pandemic and social distancing. Speculate about final wisdom that you think ... -
Gender in America - COVID-19 Journal Assignment
(Montana State University, 2020-05)We are living in a unique historic moment and it seemed to me that some of you might want to create your own historic record of your experiences. Having just read Matilda Rabinowitz’s memoir with her granddaughter’s ... -
HSTR 416 COVID Food Journal Assignment
(Montana State University, 2020-05)There are so many food issues connected to living through this pandemic: what food is available where; the anxiety of shopping; the impact on the restaurant business & workforce; the surge in baking, in the availability ... -
WRIT 201 COVID extra credit - Massey
(Montana State University, 2020-05)Assignment: We are living in a surreal time for most of us who have never experienced this sort of disruption to our daily lives. It is something that many in the past have documented as they lived through it. Since this ... -
WRIT 326 COVID assignment
(Montana State University, 2020-04)This is a course assignment collected as part of the MSU COVID-19 Special Collection in response to the pandemic of 2020. -
Honors Academy Summer 2020 Taking the Pulse of Montana
(Montana State University, 2020-06)Our overarching goal: To examine the broader role science can play in informing public dialogue of important health and environmental issues facing society -and to understand why it often falls short. Recognizing this and ... -
RLST206IH (ORIGINS OF GOD) COVID Responses
(Montana State University, 2020-04)Discussion prompt: View the Buddhist dharma lecture and the Taoism lecture. Discuss at least 4 concepts (two from each) . For each concept, discuss EITHER how it compares or contrasts to earlier material we have covered ...
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